General Aged Care Act 2024 information
The Aged Care Act 2024 plain language fact sheet is available in 22 languages, and an Easy Read version. It gives a summary of each chapter of the new Act.
Read the Sector Change Plan to see what activities are underway to support the sector to transition to the new Act.
Read the ‘What is new or changing’ document to see what is new, what is changing and what is staying the same under the new Act.
Watch a video on the new Act start date or read the new Aged Care Act start update to see frequently asked questions about the deferred start date for the new Aged Care Act and the new Support At Home program.
Read the Guide to Aged Care Law to gain a better understanding of the new aged care legal framework, including the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Aged Care Rules 2025.
Statement of Rights
This Statement of Rights plain language fact sheet is available in 25 languages and an Easy Read version. It provides a summary of the rights older people have when accessing aged care services.
Watch a video on the Statement of Rights and how the rights of older people are embedded in the Quality Standards, the regulatory model, supported decision-making and the complaints handling process under the new Act. It is available in a variety of languages, including Auslan.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Under the new Act, we will fund Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander assessment organisations to provide culturally safe, trauma aware and healing informed aged care assessments. Learn more about this on the department's website.
Single Assessment
The Single Assessment System will simplify and improve aged care assessments:
- watch a presentation recording on the training overview and MAClearning updates, download the presentation slides
- get information about the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) used to determine an older person’s eligibility for aged care services.
- read the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) user guide to understand what you must consider and record when conducting home support assessments and comprehensive assessments
- review the process overview diagram to understand the steps to use the Integrated Assessment Tool and get guidance.
Support at Home
The Support at Home program will start from 1 November 2025 read the handbook for the design and arrangements of core components.
Supported Decision Making
Under the new Act, older people must be treated with respect and are presumed to have the ability to make decisions. If they want help to make decisions they can choose to have a registered supporter. Learn more about this role, what it replaces and what is staying the same.
Read about upcoming changes to support roles and relationships on the My Aged Care website to understand how older people can be supported to make their own decisions.
There is a guide that explains the transition of representative relationships to the new registered supporter role when the new Act commences and the role of registered supporters.
Watch a video on supported decision-making, available in 7 languages.